Oracle Corporation (ORCL) To Go Ex-Dividend on July 10th

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 10th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 10th will be paid a dividend of 0.50 per share by the enterprise software provider on Friday, July 24th. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.1%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, July 10th.

Oracle has raised its dividend by an average of 0.1%annually over the last three years and has increased its dividend annually for the last 1 consecutive years. Oracle has a dividend payout ratio of 24.6% meaning its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Analysts expect Oracle to earn $7.93 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $2.00 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 25.2%.

Oracle Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE ORCL opened at $184.03 on Friday. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $183.90 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $177.88. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.66, a current ratio of 1.35 and a quick ratio of 1.35. Oracle has a one year low of $134.57 and a one year high of $345.72. The company has a market capitalization of $529.27 billion, a P/E ratio of 31.57, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.58 and a beta of 1.65.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, June 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.11 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.96 by $0.15. Oracle had a return on equity of 62.74% and a net margin of 25.37%.The firm had revenue of $19.18 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $19.10 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.70 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 20.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Oracle has set its Q1 2027 guidance at 1.720-1.760 EPS and its FY 2027 guidance at 8.050-8.050 EPS. Analysts anticipate that Oracle will post 6.33 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Trending Headlines about Oracle

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Oracle beat fiscal Q4 earnings and revenue estimates, with revenue up 21% year over year and cloud infrastructure revenue up 93%, showing strong demand for its AI and cloud services.
• Positive Sentiment: The company raised FY2027 revenue and EPS guidance and reported a record $638 billion remaining performance obligation backlog, signaling substantial future demand.
• Positive Sentiment: Oracle also won a $395.8 million U.S. Office of Personnel Management contract to modernize federal HR systems, adding a new government customer win.
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysts at several firms raised or reaffirmed price targets after the report, indicating Wall Street still sees upside despite the selloff.
• Negative Sentiment: Investors reacted negatively to Oracle’s plan to sharply increase AI-related capital expenditures and raise about $40 billion in debt and equity financing, which sparked fears over cash burn and leverage.
• Negative Sentiment: Reports of an active PeopleSoft zero-day attack and Oracle’s urgent patch warning may add near-term cybersecurity concerns, though this is more of a reputational issue than a direct earnings hit.

Oracle Company Profile

Oracle Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops and sells database software, cloud engineered systems, enterprise software applications and related services. The company is widely known for its flagship Oracle Database and a portfolio of enterprise-grade software products that support data management, application development, analytics and middleware. Over recent years Oracle has expanded its focus to include cloud infrastructure and cloud applications, positioning itself as a provider of both platform and software-as-a-service solutions for large organizations.

Oracle’s product and service offerings include Oracle Database and the Autonomous Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), human capital management (HCM) and supply chain management (SCM) cloud applications (often grouped under Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications), middleware such as WebLogic, and developer technologies including Java and MySQL.